- 22 Jun 2015 21:04
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1. How would you classify the ideology of a political party with the following platform?
2. Where would you place a political party with the following platform on the traditional left-right spectrum?
2. Where would you place a political party with the following platform on the traditional left-right spectrum?
- Preserve natural rights and individual liberty by upholding the fundamental human right to self-ownership.
- Reduce the tax burden on hard-working individuals by introducing a flat income tax and a substantial personal income allowance.
- Increase the tax burden on the wealthiest individuals by raising the inheritance tax and introducing a tax on wealth.
- Protect the hard-working poor by introducing substantial personal wealth and inheritance allowances.
- Promote economic growth by lowering the corporate tax and encouraging domestic production of goods and services.
- Increase national independence by promoting the domestic production of food and energy.
- Protect the domestic economy from foreign competition.
- Cut foreign aid.
- Abolish environmentalist programs.
- Avoid excessive spending and minimize deficits.
- Prohibit late term abortions, and reduce the number of abortions by promoting alternatives and reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies.
- Invest in the future by introducing free and compulsory basic education for all children, and free higher education for the brightest students.
- Introduce a uniform curriculum for all educational establishments throughout the nation.
- Introduce strict laicism and remove all traces of religion from public life.
- Minimize the number of unwanted pregnancies by providing free contraceptives and mandatory sex-education in all schools.
- Legalize, regulate and tax recreational drugs.
- Legalize, regulate and tax all forms of sex work.
- Abolish private health insurance and introduce a publicly-owned "National Health Insurance" towards which citizens will be required to pay a small annual sum. The "National Health Insurance" will cover 100% of the costs of healthcare and medication incurred by citizens.
- Abolish private pensions and combine the state pension and disability benefits into a single publicly-owned "National Pension Insurance", whose payouts will increase proportionally to various factors such as severity of disabilities, number of carers, age, number of years worked, ... Citizens will be required to pay a small annual sum towards the "National Pension Insurance".
- Replace long-term unemployment benefits with compulsory state employment. Under this compulsory state employment scheme, all persons who have been unemployed for more than 3 years will be required to perform community service in exchange for a salary equal to 75% of the minimum wage. Long-term unemployed persons who refuse compulsory state employment will be prohibited from receiving benefits.
- Introduce a 3 year probation for all immigrants from the date they receive their citizenship. Immigrants will be prohibited from receiving benefits during this probationary period, and immigrants who commit serious crimes during this probationary period will face increased sentences.
- Oppose multiculturalism and encourage the cultural assimilation of immigrants.
- Increase the penalties faced by businesses who employ illegal immigrants.
- Expand the rights of crime-victims by strengthening self-defence laws and prohibiting criminals from suing their victims.
- Uphold the individual's right to armed self-defence and relax the laws on private weapon ownership.
- Restore capital punishment as a penalty for the most serious crimes.
- Introduce a zero tolerance policy towards all forms religious extremism.
- Reduce the role of incarceration by promoting the use of alternative penalties such as home detention and court-ordered community service.
- Promote gender equality by expanding both men's rights and women's rights.
- Increase the penalties faced by persons found guilty of abuses of power whilst in office, including the perpetrators of police brutality.
- Provide state compensation to all persons unlawfully harmed by the state.
- Promote national security by maintaining a strong military and introducing a policy of minimal intervention in foreign affairs.
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